THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946.
RUSSIANS EVERYWHERE Summer Welles Surveys The World
PLOT AGAINST
THE POPE?
Landon, Oct. 21. The Exchange Telegraph reported that police guard.crt the route taken by Pope Pius from his summer residence, to the Vatican eaterday follow- ing a report that à Yugoslav woman would make an at- tempt on the Pontiff's life.
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The agency said informa tion was received that attempt
planned "revenge" for the excom- munication of Yugeslaur con ecrited in the trial and enn- viction of Archbishop Stepanie on charnca oferimes against the
people." Associated
Cardinal Griffin's Appeal
London, Oct. 21. Bernard Cardinal Griffin ap- pealed yesterday for the release of Archbishop Stepinac of Yugoslavia, a great and inno- cert man" who dared object "in a country where at present no objection is tolerated."
Stepinac's very refusal to be intimidated led to his arrest and sentencing to 15 years of hard labour, the Cardinal declared in a statement issued during 4 day of prayer for the Arch bishop.
"Throughout the war the Archbishop's voice was raised, and raised alone inside Croatia, all its against Nazism and "works," the statement said, adding:
"In Yugoslavia today, there are thousands of men, women and children, Orthodox as well as Roman Catholic, Communists ay well as anti-Communists, Serbs as well as Croats, Jews as well as Gentiles, who their very lives to the interven tion of the Archbishop."-Asss- ciated Press. **
Agreement On Cartels
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London, Oct. 21.
American Policy At Fault
New York, Oct. 21.-
Sumner Welles, former Assistant Secretary of State, in his new book "Where are We Head- ing" (published by Harpers), takes the view that the end of World War II proved less effec- tive than was hoped in diminishing the chances of world war III, and he asks where the mis- takes were made and what can be done to re- cover security lost.
In an exhaustive survey of the four corners of the
earth, the former Government authority in vestigates United States relations within the western hemisphere and abroad in the east and west and pays special attention to the more notorious trouble spots.
He rests his hope Wherever he looks, he sees" Russia in the background. The United Nations. Soviets enter "the scene on the Press. first page of his book and stay
there until the last..
The late President Roosevelt, he says, worked specifically. to solve the United States- Soviet
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on the Associated
Dangerous
problem and had good reasons Situation
to expect success. Welies to takes the view that this pro- he blem can be solved, for writes of "the insane delusion that Democracy and Commu- cannot simultaneously nism exist."
'Ground Lost Since the death of Roosevelt, however, Welles conten.da, ground has been lost fast. The reason, in Wales' opinion, is that the United States has not beer, as "tough" with Russia as would be justified by the fact of joint adherence by the two powers to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and the Yalta Agreement.
this country has In this; failed to insist upon the right of peoples to a government of their own choice, upon sovereign equality for all nations and upon free elections in centrar and castern Europe. he says.
Apparently. suspicious "foggy-minded Liberals," Wel- he les condones more than blames Peron of Agentina, the Government in Nationalist China, and the British course) in Greece-by-which Americans who once fought to rid them selves of a king rejoice because the Greeks voted for one,
Truman Criticised
of
- Welles condemns unreserved- British and Dutch industria- {
Sorrows lists today announced an agree-ly Marshar Tito, and
Washington, Oct. 21: The Commerce Department said that although "all time high of business inventories "do not now appear to be excessive",
the eituation has dangerous potentialities and could result in serious readjustments.
The Department pointed out that in the year following the end of the war in Europe in- ventories increased nearly $7.- 400,000,000, "the greatest record."
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WORLD WAR I VICTIM
London, Oct. 20.
A Gorman soldier's bullet, fired in the first World War, achieved its objective 28 years later.
A coroner has ruled that the "death of Ernest Ridley. 41, World War I soldier. wus "attributable to a wound received on active service." An car dischse, srsult of the punshot wound, caused mon- his ingitis which spread to brai Associated Press.
Australian Transport Tie-Up
Melbourne, Oct. 20. Forty thousand.. Australian railway and tramway workers today decided to cease work at midnight until their demands for increased wages and better conditions have been granted.
If the strike materialiaes, no trains will run in the state of Victoria, and. Melbourne will be without trams for an indefinite period.
Emergency road transport services between country cen- tres and Melbourne have been arranged and suburban bus owners and carriers have been asked to operate cn tram routes to take workers to and from places of employment.
Appeals have also been made to motorists to help.--Reuter The Department's digest noted' can be expected to increase fur- that "a significant feature" of ther." the present situation is "that! Turning to the time when although inventories are high buying for inventories will be they are badly out of balance "cut at least to a replacement with distributors stocks low and basis." the Department said the manufacturera supp.ics deficient problem then will be to find new in many important respects." outlets for production that for- merly went into inventory pipu- lines.-Associated Press.
It predicted that as inven- teries moved into balance they
Bombs Thrown At
U.S.
Army
Posts
Frankfurt, Oct. 21.
Three bomb explosions damaged American mili- tary buildings in the Stuttgart area last night and the German police said that they supected a plot to release or kill Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi financial wizard freed at Nuernberg.
The expirsions damaged an group of Germans wanting to. ment on the useful function" for Yugoslav peasants subject- American Military Police "jail free Schacht or kill him," en ed to what he calls "agrarun and the building of twa American officer working on the The communique announcing reform laws, farm co-operatives "Spruchkammer," American ap- the results of a London discus-....and ceiling prices."
of cortels.
case said. "On the other hand,”
way of telling yet whether it
No one was.
hurt in the was done by anti-Nazis or pro- Nazis. Anyway, they bombed- triple bombing, at widely scat. tered points in the Stuttgart the wrong_jail.” area. Two bombs damaged the military
sion said "there are many in- Stalin, he says, takes advan-pointed German De-Nazification the officer said, "the bombings is stration against Schacht's De- dustries where private and in-tage of America's very evident boards. Schacht, who is in a may have been a protest demon-
German jail in Stuttgart, ternational industrial agree relief at getting her servicemen scheduled to appear shortly be- Nazification and the De-Nazi- ments can fulfil a useful funes out of uniform, and he believes fore one of the other "Spruch-fication programme. There is no
succes kammer." tion in promoting orderly de- that Stalin's eventual vexpment of world production sars,"possibly aggressive Army and marketing."
leaders, might take even greater The conferees were represen-advantage of the United States. tatives of the Federation of Perhaps Welles severest cri- "British Industries and the ticism is pointed at President Netherlands Federation of In- Truman and Secretary of State duetries.
Byrnes, and the way Washing- ton officialdom "has blown now hot, now cold." First, he says, the Americans "appease" Rus sia, and then stand up to her. He would rather have the great country be "firm upon
on minor issues, conciliatory isguca."
The communique said the con- ferees were in full agreement that safeguards on a basis to be carefully defined would have to be applied by the respective National Governments to pro- tect interests of the consumers." -Associated Press.
ROOTS AND HER BUDDIES
DOESN'T HE CONFIDE IN You?
DUDLEY WENT BACK TO OUR PICHIC
SPOT TODAY! HE'S
FOUND SOMETHING OUT THERE... I WISA I KNEW WHAT I
SOMETIMES, BUT USUALLY HE GETS INTO HIS OWN TROUBLE! THEN WHEN HE GETS CLIPPED, I PATCH HIM UP FOR THE NEXT SHEARING!
The German police were call- police jail and ed in to work on the case with counter-intelligence "Spruchkammer" in Stuttgart, American and the third caused a fire at agents and the Military Police. the De-Nazification Board at The combined forces, an Ameri- Racknang, 16 miles northeast can spokesman said, had been halt since 7 was working without Schacht of Stuttgart. originally arrested at Backnang. p.m. last night, the time of the "The German police thecry is first explosions, and were comb- the ing the area for possible sub- that the bombings were work either of a crackpot or a pects.-Associated Press.
Backstage
WELL, I SUPPOSE, IT'S OKAY IF YOU CAN STAND THE SUSPENSE, BUT ME, I UKE' TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WHILE IT'S HAPPENING!
BY EDGAR MARTIN
IT'S ALL IN THE MAN YOU MARRY! I'D SLEEP IN A TENT, AND PROBABLY WILL, BEFORE I'D "CHANGE MINE !
ME, TOO! Bun I'D WANT TO HELP SELECI THE TENT 1
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